Posts Tagged ‘career development’

Remember when we were kids, and the summer holidays, those six (or eight) weeks seemed to drag on and on *forever*? If you can’t remember, think about when your kids were, say, five or six years old and over a summer (or winter) holiday they would come up to you and whinge, in their...

In a recent Mashable post Tim Cannon listed a handful of reasons why training juniors is beneficial to your own career. I completely agree with him: helping someone else understand something you already know is a challenge that takes a great deal of skill deal with on a regular basis. If anything, I have always...

There is a lot to be said about the job market over the past year: while it hasn’t exactly been a booming seeker’s market, it hasn’t been as stark as some statistics suggest. Firstly, official figures suggest that unemployment is on the decline. Secondly, if you keep an eye on job boards – the...

Employee Engagement appears to have become the new alchemy. Businesses use surveys to search for elements which they then try to mix in the hope to strike a winning combination. Here’s a suggestion for where one Philosopher’s Stone may hide – career management tools. I stumbled upon this beautiful HBR blog post this week,...

I was watching a fantastic video on TED by Gever Tulley about 5 dangerous things you should let kids do. As I was watching it, it reminded me of a Frobes blog I read earlier this week, about the top 8 skills professionals need to master. So – take some of one and some...